Liam Gallagher Pays Tribute to Late British Boxing Legend Ricky Hatton: ‘RIP CHAMP LIVE FOREVER’

Liam Gallagher is mourning the decease of his person British boxing fable Ricky Hatton. Following the passing of the 46-year aged erstwhile champ, Oasis vocalist Liam took to X to wage tribute to Hatton, writing, “Absolutely devastated to perceive the quality astir RICKY HATTON it was an implicit honour to cognize him and transportation his belts RIP CHAMP LIVE FOREVER.”

According to the BBC, the satellite champion nicknamed “The Hitman” was recovered dormant successful his location successful Greater Manchester aboriginal connected Sunday (Sept. 14), with officials not considering his passing suspicious. Hatton was a boxing legend, winning 45 of 48 nonrecreational bouts crossed a 15-year vocation and holding satellite titles arsenic some a light-welterweight and welterweight. The boxer who retired successful 2012 ran up a peerless grounds of 43-0 earlier losing to chap fable Floyd Mayweather Jr. astatine the MGM Grand successful Las Vegas successful 2007.

Like the Gallaghers, Hatton was calved successful Manchester and was a lifelong protagonist of his hometown and its taste legacy. He squared the ellipse connected their shared inheritance successful 2008 erstwhile Liam and member Noel carried Hatton’s satellite rubric belts into the ringing up of the boxer’s Las Vegas bout with Paulie Malignaggi.

Speaking astir his relationship with the Gallaghers years ago, the Daily Mail quoted Hatton saying, “Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to beryllium a boxing satellite champion, enactment [local shot club] Man City and perceive to Oasis. But I became a four-time satellite champion successful 2 value classes, ended up boxing astatine the Etihad Stadium successful beforehand of 55,000 people, and became mates with Noel and Liam Gallagher implicit the years.”

NME reported that successful July Hatton attended 1 of the archetypal Oasis reunion shows successful Cardiff and aboriginal posted a representation of himself with Noel Gallagher and immoderate friends astatine Heaton Park successful their hometown of Manchester, arsenic good arsenic astatine a show successful Dublin.

In 1 of his last nationalist appearances successful August, Hatton was recorded astatine a barroom successful Tenerife successful the Canary Island astatine a barroom joining the location band for a screen of Oasis’ signature deed “Wonderwall” arsenic good arsenic crooning a karaoke version of the band’s “Don’t Look Back successful Anger” astatine a barroom successful Spain.

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